Active Cancer NIHR-supported project Lungs & Breathing

A Phase 1 open-label, first-in-human, multicenter study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and antitumor activity of actinium-225-macropa-pelgifatamab (BAY3546828)in participants with advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)

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A radioactive drug that homes in on prostate cancer cells is being tested in people for the first time, with the aim of delivering a lethal dose of radiation directly to tumours while sparing healthy tissue. The treatment, called 225Ac-pelgi, targets a protein called PSMA that sits on the surface of prostate cancer cells. Once bound, it emits a short-range form of radiation that kills only the cells it attaches to. The trial is for patients with advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have run out of standard options. If the drug proves safe and effective, it could offer a new line of therapy for a disease that currently has few remaining treatments. The study also includes a sub-study to track where the drug goes in the body and how much radiation reaches the tumour—information that could help refine dosing and improve future targeted radiotherapies.

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The study treatment actinium-225-macropa-pelgifatamab (also called 225Ac-pelgi or BAY 3546828) is a new type of treatment under development for patients with mCRPC who have already received available treatments or have few treatment options available. It works by binding to a protein on the surface of the cancer cells called prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA). As it gives off a type of radioactivity that travels a very short distance, it kills the nearby (cancer) cells that express PSMA. Participants in this study will take the study treatment 225Ac-pelgi once in a period of 6 weeks called a cycle. Each participant will have 4 of these treatment cycles if the participant benefits from the treatment. Each participant will be in the study for up to nearly six years, including a first test (screening) phase of a maximum of 28 days, up to 12 months of treatment depending on the participant’s benefit, and a follow-up phase of 60 months after the end of treatment. In addition, a sub study during the dose escalation part will gather information on the distribution of the study treatment in the body, the proportion that binds to the cancer cells, and the resulting radiation at the tumor site. During the study, the study team will do physical examinations, check vital signs such as blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature, take blood, and urine samples, examine heart health using echocardiogram and electrocardiogram, take tumour samples, track 225Ac-pelgi in the body using gamma imaging (only selected sites), check the tumour status using PET (positron emission tomography), CT (computed tomography) or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and bone scans, and ask questions about the impact of the disease on the participants’ wellbeing and activities of daily life (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance status.

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ANURADHA JAYARAM (Principal Investigator)

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